Is it different for each phone? And is there still hope after I try it?

Yeah don't worry, you will get it working again.

No the procedure is basically the same for all phones. The only difference is the the file you use and how you put your phone on fastboot. For the z7 mini is volume down + power button, so similar to booting into recovery but different push on the volume rockers.

No the procedure is basically the same for all phones. The only difference is the the file you use and how you put your phone on fastboot. For the z7 mini is volume down + power button, so similar to booting into recovery but different push on the volume rockers.

But okay... You need to install android sdk on your computer, set your phone to fastboot, then via command prompter run commands from within the sdk android directory that install the recovery.img file.

So you can do it without reading about it and just follow just the instructions above but if I was you I would read and watch YouTube videos, because I just wrote that out of my memory. For the exact steps you need to do some homework.

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